The Chesapeake and Ohio, or the C&O, operated a busy rail yard in Covington for many years, but the area became too crowded for yard expansion, which is why, in 1910, they moved the operation to Silver Grove.

The C&O Railroad Station. Also used by the L&N, it lasted
until August of 1922. It was located at 8th & Russell.

September 6, 1931, A locomotivefrom the Louisville, Hendersonand St. Louis at the C. & O. in Covington

May 16, 1930 at the C. & O. Roundhouse in Covington.C. & O. 811.

September 6, 1931, C. & O. 447

C & O Roundhouse & Offices. Looking northwest, from Madison, near 14thThanks! to Nancy and Dennis Hanseman for this image

The C & O Offices, damaged in the July 7, 1915 tornado

The C&O Roundhouse To see the roundhouse
today, go west on 14th, off of Madison

Car #2 of the Cincinnati, Newport & Covington Railway, 1941

The Covington, Flemingsburg and Pound Gap Railway was organized in 1876, and went through a series of names. In January of 1880 it became the Licking Valley Railway Co, and in September of that year, became the Covington, Flemingsburg and Southeastern. Then in 1881 it was the Cincinnati and Southeastern Railway. The Covington, Flemingsburg, and Ashland Railway was the name adopted in 1887, and that entity was sold in bankruptcy on May 7, 1887, at which point it became the Cincinnati, Flemingsburg and Southeast Railroad. That lasted until January 1, 1920, when it re-organized as the Flemingsburg and Northern Railway, and made it's last run on December 6, 1955.

And despite the three different occurrences of the name Covington in its corporate title, the railroad never had actual track outside of Fleming County, Kentucky.

System Map of the Cincinnati, Newport, and Covington
Railway, a.k.a. the CNC, a.k.a. the Green Line, is here